Laughter, Falling Water and Time
The St. Paul Athletic Club, corner 4th and Cedar streets, has a frontage on 4th street of 112 feet and 100 feet on Cedar street and is founded on broader lines and will cover a much wider scope and field of usefulness in the community at large than similar organizations in the country of its … Read more
The Rogers Hotel was the talk of the town in during the Gay Nineties. The original Rogers embraced 132 feet on 4th and 113 feet on Nicollet. Legend has it that in 1886, J. E. “Tooze” Rogers walked into a one story building on the corner and said, ” This looks like a likely place … Read more
Construction on the National Bank of Commerce Building at 4th and Marquette began in 1887. Designed by Minneapolis architect, Harry W. Jones the building, was completed in 1889. Inspired by Henry H. Richardson’s Field Building in Chicago. The National Bank of Commerce was featured in a 1889 issue of Northwestern Architect. Jones may have worked … Read more